End Rape on Campus (EROC) is a survivor advocacy organization dedicated to ending sexual violence through survivor support, public education, and policy and legislative reform.

We provide free, direct assistance to all survivors of gender-based and sexual violence on campus interested in filing federal complaints, organizing for change, or drawing public attention to hold their schools accountable.

We have assisted hundreds of students at dozens of schools file Title IX, Clery Act, and other civil rights complaints to seek justice and reform.

EROC in the News

EROC in the News

EROC staff members are frequent contributors to major news outlets and are available for comment on issues related to campus sexual assault. Below you will find our most up to date media coverage, including quotes, comments, EROC references, and articles penned by our staff.

The articles below are updated weekly and are organized by most recent.

Rewire—Campus Sexual Assault Rules in Crosshairs of Trump's Education Task Force
"I think that it's very unfortunate that folks who are going to be in charge—Falwell and potentially Betsy DeVos—are thinking about rolling back the progress that we've made over the past two years, but I don't think that changes the fact that schools have the responsibility under Title IX to treat all students equally and to ensure their safe and equitable access to education." -- Annie Clark

ATTN:—Sexual Assault Survivors Are Urging the Trump Administration Not to Gut Title IX
"We really wanted to start a broad based campaign to educate the public about why Title IX is important, and also to ensure that Betsy DeVos, the education nominee, commits during her hearing to protecting and enforcing Title IX. We wanted to create to coalition of people demanding that she uphold these important protections and be committed to this issue." -- Sofie Karasek

North State Journal—New rape claim surfaces at UNC Chapel Hill
"It doesn’t matter what happened. What matters is the school is obligated to certain things under Title IX, so whether someone exposed themselves to you or you were raped, it doesn’t matter. The school has an obligation, and we will help them hold that school accountable." -- Anna Voremberg

Dallas News—What if college athletes rose up in support of women's campus safety?
"If you were to ask an individual if this type of behavior is acceptable, they would say, 'Absolutely not.' But when they see 120 of their brothers, their teammates, standing behind it, they're going to say yes. We need more people to step out of that and do the right thing." -- Annie Clark

Inside Higher Ed—Defining Rape Culture
"The definition needs to be there. It helps to have parameters for the conversation you’re having on campus, so defining rape culture is important." -- Anna Voremberg

Minnesota Public Radio—Myriad options, pressures can silence sex assault victims
"People are saying 'Keep quiet' or 'What about him?' if the assailant is a man. "So oftentimes, by the time they've even gone through the possibility of seeking justice through a formal process, often times they have been re-traumatized again." -- Anna Voremberg

The New York Times—Trust Me, Trigger Warnings Are Helpful
"When professors give these warnings, provide alternative readings and facilitate respectful conversations about deeply personal issues, it is easier for all students to participate."

Business Insider—Experts are poking holes in Stanford's new ban on hard alcohol
"The policy scapegoats alcohol, misplacing culpability from perpetrators to the tool they use to carry out assault," Colleen Daly, the director of communications at the advocacy organization End Rape on Campus, told Business Insider. "This policy is both misguided and ineffective as it perpetuates the myth that alcohol, rather than rapists, causes rape."

Inside Higher Ed—Alcohol Bans and Sexual Assault
"Schools definitely have a responsibility to prepare students for safe drinking habits. That’s important. But putting such policies in the context of preventing sexual assault misses the mark. Alcohol doesn’t cause rape. It’s a weapon used by rapists to rape women."

ESPN W—Is any school properly managing sexual assault on campus?
"I think a lot of money is going to prevention, which is justified because prevention is very necessary," Pino said. "Unfortunately, we're not putting even a quarter of the money that we put into anti-violence campaigns as well as other bystander programs into actual holistic support for survivors."

Washington D.C. Patch—Putting Those Campus Rape Statistics in Context“Wealthy white perpetrators often have access to resources so that they can, in the campus process, have the proceedings drawn out for a long time, and use every possible loophole that they can to prolong it until after the perpetrator graduates," Karasek said. "That’s one of the most common things that we see with perpetrators that have access to those resources.”

The Christian Science Monitor—
Outcry over Stanford case hints at shift in rape culture
"It’s not an anomaly that she was treated this way,” says Sofie Karasek, co-founder of End Rape on Campus. Campus administrators and people in the criminal justice system do seem to often have the attitude of “well, he can’t control himself, boys will be boys, this is part of the culture"

Boston.com—Advocates decry ‘victim blaming’ in Worcester college rape lawsuit
“Assuming it is incumbent on the survivor of sexual violence to prevent a crime from occurring to her perpetuates an idea that is damaging for everyone in society, particularly victims,” she said. “And it’s very damaging if it’s coming from an institution."

The Huffington Post—Advocates Livid That Donald Trump Said China Is Going To ‘Rape’ America
“Using the word ‘rape’ to describe anything other than sexual violence trivializes the experience of survivors,” added Colleen Daly, a spokeswoman for the group End Rape on Campus. “The statement perpetuates our cultural indifference to rape and desensitizes us to all forms of sexual violence.”

The Huffington Post—Sexual Assault on Campus: We Believe You
"In the words of Clark and Pino: “Believing survivors is a type of
radical everyday activism, since we live in a society that suggests that you do completely the opposite.”"

The Antelope—Shatter the Silence
"“You should never feel ashamed to speak out and ask for help,” said Clark to the audience, explaining the importance of taking action against sexual assault."

NPR WBFO 88.7—Gillibrand credits campus sexual assault survivors for shining light
"“This group of survivors and advocates have been so successful in bringing attention to this issue that everyone from colleges and universities to government officials to businesses and non for-profits, parents and their children, are now thinking about ‘How do we fight campus sexual violence?,'” Gillibrand said."

AMI Newswire—Senators seek law to boost college sexual assault reporting
"What we are trying to do is flip the incentives," said Annie Clark, co-founder and director of End Rape on Campus, who was assaulted while a student at the University of North Carolina. "This is happening on every campus,” she added. “Sexual violence is not a partisan issue."

Observer—A Conversation With The Hunting Ground’s Kirby Dick
"I know that Sofie Karasek, who’s in our film and now with End Rape On Campus, said the first time she went around a fraternity—she was kind of teaching fraternities about this bill—there was a real negative reaction to it. But when she went around the following semester, things had really changed. Even fraternity members were saying, “We’re welcoming this.”"

The Daily Nebraskan—End Rape on Campus march to raise sexual assault awareness
“We hope survivors will know that their peers care, and want to prevent this from happening to anyone,” Deeds said. “It is never survivors’ fault. We believe them, and there are resources available on campus and beyond.”

Public News Service—"Unsafe Time in NC" – Sexual Assault Survivor on HB 2 Impact
"There are often these institutions within the institution, whether they're fraternities or athletic programs," says Pino. "There's power. There's power in these organizations, there's power in these individuals that run these organizations, and in many ways they're untouchable. They're oftentimes see as being more valuable to the organization than an everyday student that might have been assaulted."

Cosmopolitan—What You Can Do to Support a Survivor of Sexual Assault
"We know that if we're talking about this [for the first time] in college, we're way too late. But we were really pretty intentional about having this just be an entry point for a larger conversation, culturally and legally."

Daily Camera—In CU visit, Joe Biden delivers forceful plea to end campus sexual assault
"Honestly, over the past few years, I've probably told this story more than 200 times," she said. "I've done this because despite everything I love, my university and I want it to change. But also because I know that my story is way too similar to those of thousands of other survivors across the United States."

Flare—Activists’ New Book Humanizes Sexual Assault Victims
"We wanted survivors to be able to tell their stories without a media filter and to have them seen as whole people—to not have this definitive moment in time be the only thing the world knows about survivors."

Cosmopolitan—What No One Understands About Campus Rape
"We've noticed, even with our own stories, that the media often leaves out the messy details, as if pining for a "perfect survivor" narrative, something that we have come to learn does not exist."

USA Today—Women put names and faces on Title IX filings
"More people are coming forward now because they realize they’re not alone,” says Anna Voremberg, managing director of End Rape on Campus, a non-profit that works to end campus sexual violence. “They see how pervasive sexual assault is — and that they have rights.”